Keynote Speaker


Dr. Alfredo Cuzzocrea, Professor

Dr. Alfredo Cuzzocrea, Professor

University of Calabria, Rende, Italy; University of Paris City, Paris, France
Speech Title: Advanced Machine Learning Structures over Big Data Repositories: Definitions, Models, Properties, Algorithms

Abstract: Big data repositories contain great-value data from which actionable knowledge insights can be meaningfully derived in order to support a wide spectrum of modern applications, such as smart cities, social networks, e-science, bio-informatics, and so forth. How to extract these interesting patterns from such large-scale repositories? The latter is a fundamental research question that is still open. Inspired by the described research challenge, this talk will explore the issue of supporting advanced machine learning structures over big data repositories, whose final goal is realizing meaningful knowledge discovery tasks. These “structures” are rather programs than tasks so that they incorporate machine learning procedures within high-level (program) controls whose main goal is that of magnifying the expressive power of the whole big data analytics process implemented as a collection of singleton big data analytics tasks. In turn, each task is implemented in term of a proper advanced machine learning structure. The talk will provide introduction and motivations to the investigated problem, analysis of related work, and the proposal of a formal framework supporting these innovative structures.


Biography: Alfredo Cuzzocrea is Professor of Computer Engineering at the University of Calabria, Rende, Italy. He also covers the role of Excellence Chair in Big Data Management and Analytics at the University of Paris City, Paris, France. He is the Director of the Big Data Engineering and Analytics Lab of the University of Calabria, Rende, Italy. He is also Research Fellow of the National Research Council (CNR), Rome, Italy. His current research interests span the following scientific fields: big data, database systems, data mining, data warehousing, and knowledge discovery. He is author or co-author of more than 750 papers in international conferences (including CIKM, MDM, EDBT, SSDBM, PAKDD, DOLAP), international journals (including TKDE, JCSS, IS, FGCS, INS, JMLR) and international books. He is recognized in prestigious international research rankings, such as: (i) 1st World-Wide Scientist 2020 and 20211 for Research Topic: “OnLine Analytical Processing (OLAP)” by Microsoft Academic, Redmond, WA, USA; (ii) Top 2% World-Wide Scientist 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021 by METRICS, Stanford, CA, USA; (iii) Top-100 Italian Scientist in Computer Science and Electronics 2022 and 2023 by Guide2Research, Clifton, NJ, USA; (iv) Top Scientist in Computer Science and Electronics 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023 by Guide2Research, Clifton, NJ, USA; (v) Top-100 Researcher in Computer Science 2017-2021 for Research Topic: “Computer Science” by SciVal – Elsevier, Amsterdam, Netherlands; (vi) Top-100 Researcher in Computer Science 2017-2021 for Research Topic: “Theoretical Computer Science” by SciVal – Elsevier, Amsterdam, Netherlands; (vii) Top-100 Researcher in Computer Science 2012-2016 for Research Topic: “Computer Science” by SciVal – Elsevier, Amsterdam, Netherlands; (viii) Top-100 Researcher in Computer Science 2012-2016 for Research Topic: “Theoretical Computer Science” by SciVal – Elsevier, Amsterdam, Netherlands; (ix) Top-100 Italian Scientist in Computer Sciences 2022 by Virtual Italian Academy, Manchester, UK; (x) Top Italian Scientist in Computer Sciences 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022 by Virtual Italian Academy, Manchester, UK.